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a dark speck in end of cell and two on costa above it ; a pink 

 patch just beyond the discocellulars. Hind wing fuscous brown. 

 Hob. Bombay. Exp. 30 millim. Type in B. M. 



4469. Orthaga rudis, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd series, i, p. 115 ; 



C. fy S. no. 4477. 



$ . Pale reddish brown and grey, slightly irrorated with fuscous. 

 Pore wing with the basal half slightly tinged with olive ; some 

 black scales before the grey and rufous tufts below and at end of 

 cell ; the tuft beyond the cell dark ; a dentate postinedial dark 

 line with grey outer edge, excurved from the costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved, a diffused dark line across its curve and sometimes 

 white in the curve ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing 

 pale, suffused with fuscous brown on outer half ; traces of a waved 

 postmedial line, which is more prominent on underside. 



Hob. " India " ; Nilgiris. Exp. 40 millim. 



4470. Orthaga exvinacea, Hmpsn. Ill Het. viii, p. 127, pi. 154, fig. 9. 



$ . Differs from roseiplaga in the basal two-thirds of fore wing 

 being suffused with dull olive-green ; a dark speck beyond the 

 cell but no pink patch ; the postmedial line regularly curved and 

 crenulate; the outer area suffused with vinous and with a 

 prominent series of dark marginal specks. Hind wing with dark 

 marginal line. Underside of hind wing pale to beyond the 

 slightly waved curved postmedial line ; the outer area fuscous. 



Hob. Nilgiris, W. slopes. Exp. 30 millim. 



4471. Orthaga irrorata, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, p. 156, pi. 172, fig. 1. 



. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing clothed with grey, 

 ferruginous, and fuscous scales ; the last with a ferruginous spot 

 at base; two obscure ferruginous medial lines; a short black 

 streak on median nervure and speck on discocellulars ; a highly 

 curved and minutely dentate postmedial dark line with rufous in 

 its curve, grey outer edge, and the area beyond it suffused with 

 brown ; a marginal series of brown specks. Hind wing brown ; 

 the cilia grey-tipped. Underside brown ; hind wing with obscure 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 28 millim. 



4472. Orthaga euadrusalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 191 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl 



iii, pi. 178, figs. 2, 2 a ; C. $ S. no. 4488. 

 Orthaga acontialis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 103. 



Head and thorax grey with a slight olive-green tinge ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with fuscous. Fore wing yellowish white with an 

 olive tinge and slight rufous and fuscous irroration ; black specks 

 at base and in middle of cell ; a large antemedial black spot on 

 costa ; a curved minutely dentate postmedial line ; the apical half 



